Scott Dunn, the pianist on this album, has a long and close relationship with Lukas Foss, serving as his associate music director for the Music Festival of the Hamptons.
Composer Biography
Lukas Foss's family fled the burgeoning threat of Nazism in Germany in 1933, making him a worldly and precocious teenager.
Recording & Production
The album's cover painting is a 2002 portrait of Lukas Foss by Cornelia Foss, who is also thanked in the special thanks section.
Composer Biography
Lukas Foss, the composer, was the youngest ever to receive a Guggenheim fellowship and also won the Rome Prize and a Fulbright.
Composer Biography
Lukas Foss, the composer, enrolled at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia at age fifteen, having already composed for almost a decade and experienced the tumult of the mid-century world.
Composer Biography
When Lukas Foss was appointed professor of music at UCLA, he replaced Arnold Schoenberg, a composer who also wrestled with the idea of tradition.
Compositional Technique
Lukas Foss's Scherzo Ricercato combines the rigor of Bach with spiky, jazz-like interjections, reflecting a common experimentation with jazz among his generation.
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